DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Side-by-side comparison of specifications, capabilities, and pricing.

	DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct AI at Meta
Released	2024-12-26	2024-07-23
Context window	64k	128K
Parameters	671B	70B
Architecture	mixture of experts	decoder only
License	Open Source	Open Source
Knowledge cutoff	2024-04	—
Capabilities
Vision
Multimodal
Reasoning
Function calling
Tool use
Structured Outputs
Code execution
Availability
Providers	DeepInfra Fireworks AI DeepSeek Platform Microsoft Foundry OpenRouter NVIDIA NIM AWS Bedrock Together AI Bitdeer AI SiliconFlow Replicate API	OctoAI API Together AI Fireworks AI NVIDIA NIM Microsoft Foundry Databricks Foundation Model Serving Hyperbolic AI Inference DeepInfra OpenRouter IBM watsonx AWS Bedrock

Benchmarks

HellaSwag95.794.2HumanEval85.584.1Massive Multitask Language Understanding88.586.0LiveCodeBench49.6—Aider Polyglot48.4—BigCodeBench50.0—Chatbot Arena1302.0—MMLU PRO75.9—

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